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In A Moment

Cindy had stood up when she heard the voice. She was so shocked by what she saw, she almost fainted. It was Nick...of all people. Standing there looking at her and Jimmy..with anger reflected in his eyes. She got very confused all of a sudden. Jimmy looked about as shocked as she felt.

" What are you doing here?" she asked without thinking. He walked past Jimmy to her. He pulled her into his arms.

" Saving your but, you see Cindy, didn't you ever wonder how I was soo popular and so rich? Well lets just say that Mr. Olson is kind of related to me..You see..it all started with affair with my mother before she died. What he didn't expect was for me to find out. And I also got onto his past you see. My mother was very ill and made me promise not to tell about the affair. But with his growing reputation, I had to take the opportunity. He agreed to give me all the riches, all the fame for simply not telling about what he had done.. My mother died soon after that. I reckoned that I could use the history as blackmail. So I began blackmailing him. He of course couldn't refuse the offers I made. And so I got myself everything I ever wanted..and now I agreed to help him kill Jimmy... but I can't let them kill you babe.." he said smoothly. His arms held her tighter.

" Let me go!" She said angrily. He just smiled.

" What if I don't want to?"

" LET ME GO!" she said again. This time with more fury then before.

" Whoa now.. Take it easy there..." he said laughing.

" I will not let you hurt him Nick!"

" Oh my word...is this you Cindy? The Cindy I know would've let me hurt Nuetron in a second."

" Yes Nick this is me..the real me..the one that's been screaming to get out..that finally is getting out.."

" You are so stupid..so you choose death then? You would die ..for Spewtron?" he said laughing. " He must have you under some kind of spell or something." he paused looking at Jimmy.

" So you think that you can just steal her away? Well it's not that easy..we'll see how you like to be left..alone.. To die! Kill him!" Nick cried. Mr. Olson smiled.

" Gladly..." Nick led her in to the room which Jimmy had fallen in. Tears were welling in her eyes. She had to stop them. Then she saw it!! Jimmy's hypno beam lay on the ground next to her. She had an idea. She turned on the volume so everyone could hear what she was doing. She smiled at Nick. Her hands slipped from his grasp and caressed his chest. He looked at her with pleasure. She walked over to the lights and dimmed them... she started to unbutton her sweatshirt. ( She was wearing a tank top underneath.) She found the button for music..and found sexy slow music.. She was going to have to do this..for Jimmy. Everyone outside was watching as Cindy walked over to him. She sat directly in his lap. She ripped out her ponytail..Nick kissed her neck playfully. She pulled his head into her neck harder.. She pretended to moan. She put her hand around his face. She lifted his lips to hers..and pulled him into a kiss... At which point he slipped his arms around her waist. She pulled him slowly onto the floor. He was making the kiss more passionate. She hated it..but it was for Jimmy. He started playing with the bottom of her shirt. His hands slid underneath it.. Crap..she had to hurry. She rolled on top of him and kissed him playfully while reaching behind her to grab the ray. She held it above his head.

" Sorry about that.." she said laughing. She pointed it at his head.

" Free Jimmy!" his voice said. YES ..thank you for letting it work! They responded to his command she then hit him over the head with the beam. She turned off the sound and then she crawled over on her knees to the door.

" Why Nick!" Mr. Olson said ..he was obviously right outside the door. He jiggled the handle.

" Nick are you alright?" no response.. " Okay I'm coming in there!!" he said unlocking the door. He walked in the dark. " Why is it so dark in here? You can't see a thing!" he said feeling his way around. She heard him trip and snuck out the door. Locking it behind her.. Good thing it was only open able from the outside. She smiled as he pounded on it.

" Let me out.." he cried repeatedly.. Sound proof rooms.. ROCK! She laughed as she walked into the room. Jimmy sat there staring at her.

" You are brilliant.." he said nearing her.

" I was wondering why you did that stuff.."

" Why? Was it weird?" she asked laughing. He smiled down at her. She had found interest in the vent.

" We had better go, I'm guessing it won't be long till someone sees him.." he laughed as he climbed up on a table that he pushed over. He pulled her up onto it with him. She felt very strange being this close to him.. He smelt so good.. He smiled as he climbed upward into the vent. He reached down for her hand and pulled her up. The vent was large enough for two people. She sat on her knees and looked him in the eyes. He was very close..even closer than in the street that day. She blushed and looked at the bottom of the vent. He looked at her with a quizzical look on his face. She blushed again.

" I'll explain this later..." he said.

" Explain what?" she asked confused. In a moment, he pulled her face forcefully into his. His lips touched hers briskly and forcefully. She was stunned. Her heart was flying.. She was spinning..like someone had grabbed her heart with a string and tied it to him.. She could constantly feel her butterflies floating around. She had been kissed before..but she had never felt like this. He tasted like something perfect, something sweet..that she had never tasted before..like Libby had said.. Like the sweetest honey...or like a drug that you could never get enough of.. A constant state of euphoria. Meanwhile her body had found itself paralyzed by the electricity running wildly through it. She felt the tingles that she got, but this time they were stronger..and more of them. She ignored them..and personally..she liked these tingles. Nothing like she had ever felt....Unexpectedly her arms found there way around his neck.. And he was pulling away..but she kissed him right back. He slid his arms around her waist... she had dreamed of this moment..but she had no idea it was going to take place in a vent of all places.. She would have preferred it to be in a park or a romantically lit dinner. But who cared.. Jimmy was kissing her..the world was right..she belonged no where but here. She never wanted it to end..but it did..when it did..it was a slow ending. He slowly pulled away and still close to her face.. He whispered..

" Wow," as if the most wonderful thing in the world had just happened. She blushed.

" Yeah, wow.." she replied as though she would break the moment into a million pieces. Silence fell between them. She unwrapped her arms from the back of his neck. And sat on her knees. He sat there.. Looking at her.. Finally she had to ask..

" Why did you kiss me?" she asked

" Why did you kiss me back?" he asked smiling.

" I think we have to talk about this later..."

" I agree.." he said as he turned around. But not before kissing her quickly on the lips. She touched them as he led her crawling down the vent. They crawled and crawled. She touched her lips with a wide smile. She felt like she had experienced the best thing in the world.

" We have to get that blue notebook.." he said looking down into Mr. Olson's office. Which was now right below them. He opened the vent.

" Here hold this.." he said. He handed her his backpack. It smelt so sweet, just like he tasted. She remembered the taste of his kiss. The feel of his lips pressed so violently against hers. The heat which had been included in that kiss. She smiled as he grabbed the notebook and passed it up to her. She felt his touch again. Her hand numbed, but she ignored it. She pulled him up. Sure enough..the notes were still in perfect condition.

" But there's nothing about... you know..the confession.." she said dissapointed. He looked into her eyes.

" It's 15 peoples words against six.."

" But those six people aren't exactly powerless Jimmy.. They know everything about us..there's nothing we can do..no one will believe us!"

" That's Retroville for you Cindy....but we have to try Cindy...otherwise no one will ever know..that it was all a cover up for things unmentionable. The affair..the killing.. It's all bad stuff Cindy..we have to tell them.." his eyes looked deep into hers.

" But there's nothing we can do to prove it.."

" Oh yes there is!" he said pulling her closer to him.

" What?"

" Buildings like this always have tapes recording.." he said quietly. His lips were inches away from hers. She smiled.

" Of course.." she laughed. He moved away. Something that she hadn't wanted..but hey..he had kissed her..but he hadn't told her he loved her..maybe it was a spontaneous thing.She shook the idea out of her head and willingly followed Jimmy down the vent. She could hear his raspy breaths and her own. They finally reached the room where everything was recorded. He lowered her down. She popped out the tape marked.. Room 56 the one she knew that they had been in. Because Mr. Olson was still locked inside pounding on the door. She laughed at this site. And then she climbed back up into the vent. Jimmy sat there and took the tape and placed it into his backpack.

" There we've got proof.." just then they heard noise from below them.. It was a guard. His wide smile told everything.

" There you are...we've been looking for you two.." he began shooting the vent..they crawled..faster...faster... a few shots barely missed Cindy's head. Maybe this wasn't going to be as easy as they thought. He followed her..hurrying her..her head spun as she crawled faster and faster.. She could feel his breath on her neck. The guy kept shooting almost directly on them. She could feel her heart going 50 million miles an hour. Like when Jimmy had kissed her.. And then she saw it.. A way out!!! She crawled towards it.. It was a small room.. She read the directions..they were on the third floor. First floor here they come.. She knew they were in the government building. This is where they had come that one day. She remembered the elevator... they could get out of here. She kicked the vent open. She jumped down followed by Jimmy. She laughed as she realized they both were soot covered. Icky.. Those vents must have been pretty dirty. He smiled at her as he neared her.. She wanted him to touch her..to tell him.. But they had to get out of here...so she hurriedly kicked open the door. To find..that there was no one there..they hurried to an elevator. It was quite.. The heat was building.. Just then Cindy came to a realization..

They were going to end up in the main lobby..where every one could see them....

heheh stay tuned for the next ch. called Escape? -kTe-